It tells the fictional story of a moment in the life of one of the astronauts, and the decisions they made to get involved in science.In the year 2033, a crew of six astronauts launch from Florida on a journey to be the first people to set foot on Mars. During the descent into the Martian atmosphere, there is a malfunction with their spacecraft,Mars Seasons 1-2 DVD the Daedalus. They land 75.3 kilometres away from their planned habitat. On Earth their progress is being monitored.Intermixed with the story are real-life interview footage from the year 2016, of the crew,Mars Seasons 1-2 and their mission control; there are interviews with various scientists, and engineers, such as Elon Musk, Andy Weir, Robert Zubrin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson,about the difficulties that the crew might face on a journey to, and living on, Mars.